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Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He’d ventured east, both to meet with Theory at Abaven and inform her of his rise, and to explore a bit more before winter really settled in. He’d decided to make a stop at the willows on the way, circling around the Armada border, though a casual sniff brough curious results that he’d dwell on later.
For now, he padded through the willows, nose trailing a deer scent before he broke off and moved to one f the larger streams, crouching and watching the water, before a lazy shape drifted beneath the surface.
He lunged, aiming ahead of the shape and sank his sabers into the fish, lifting the thrashing catch – and his whole head – from the water and splashing back to dry land, tossing the fish well away from freedom and following it as it flopped and bounced across the ground before pinning it and finishing the animal off in one of the moments it fell still.
He looked up to find himself not as alone as he’d thought. A yearling, based in deep chocolate and splotched in cream stood before him, gawking around herself in naked wonder. Small, as most were to wolves his size, and teal-eyed, with marks of the same color touching her cheeks beneath them.
His head cocked, tail wagging in easy greeting as he added, “H’lo, miss.”
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.